Gyperm.] clxxii. otpSeaob^. (0. Bj Clarke.) 617 



Prom the Punjab, T, Thomson, to Niiohibi Mis., S^ohenacker, Bcatteredj not 

 common.— DiSTEiB. S. Earope, Afric, Amerio. 



Stolons exceedingly slender, with small pale scales, often disappearing after the 

 tubers are formed j tubers (ripe) woody, more regujarly zoned than those of 0. 

 rotundus. Glumes in fruit slightly rigid, so that they are less closely imbricated 

 (than in 0. rotundus) the spikelets more turgid. — So close to C. rotundus that it is 

 much mixed with it in many herbaria:. ■ 



Sect. 7. ExALTATi. Tall. Stolons 0. Leaves and bracts long.; Umbel 

 large compound, spikes and gpikelets many. EhacMUa ot spikelets con- 

 spicuously winged. Anthers apiculate, not rarely crested. Styl6 (with 

 its 3 branches) small. Nut small, ashy black.' (8p. 56-61.) 



56. C radiatus, Vahl Enwnt. ii. 369 ; spikes digitate scarcely 

 peduncled long-cylindric dense, spikelets linear 12-30-fld., glumes (even 

 in fruit) closely imbricate, wings of rhaohilla oblong persistent, anthers 

 short-oblong not crested, Kunth Enunt. ii. 71; Boeck. in LinncBa, 'kssni. 

 317 ; 0. JB. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 185. 0. invplucratus, Poir. in 

 Lam. Uncyc. vii. 253. C. verticillatus, JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i.,^06 ; Kutith I. c. 71 ; 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. 87. 0. digitatus, Nees L.c} Sblnot Soxb.). C- 

 Eoylei, Am. in Wight Oontrib. 85 (in note) ; £}lmtA I- c. 100. 0. obscurus, 

 Nees in Hooh. Kew Journ. vi. 27. OyperUs,/TFa(Z: Gat. 3345. 



From Agea, Munro to PsNANa, Curtis; plentiful in' Bengal. — Dibteib. As., 

 Afric, Amer. 



Glabrous. Stems 1-3 ft. iecw)es often f stem, J ' in. broad. Umbel simple or 

 compound j spikes 1 by ^ in., very dense; (S«)»!;e7Ufe r Bammonly }~ by J„ in., usually 

 duU-colrd., not bright yellow or red-brown. iJZwmes broad ovate, keeled, obtuse, 

 3-5-nerved on back, muticous or sometimes muoronate. JV«t ovoid, -f— J length of 

 glume ; style ^ as long as nut, branches 3 linear small. ' 



57. C exaltatus, Betz Obs. v. 11 ; spikes (some) peduncled long- 

 cylindric, spikelets very many (not, tightly crowded) linear 8-20-fid., glumes 

 (even in fruit) closely imbricate, wings of rhachilla oblong persistent, 

 anthers oblong not crested, Kunth JSnum. ii. 70; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 

 84 {excl. G.fastigiatus) ; Thto. Unum. 343; Boeck. in I/inneea, xxxvi. 319 ; 

 G. B. Cla/rhe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 186 {iticl. var. (3 am,cena.) C. odoratus, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 20, t. 8, fig. 2 {not Linn). 0. venustus, Br. Prodr. 217 ; 

 Kunth I. c. 68 (partly) ; Thw. Enwm. 432. C. umbellatus, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 205; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 284; Am. in Wight Contrib. 85 in Obs. 

 (not Benth.). C. alopecuroides, Boxb. l.c.WS. 0. acerosus, Boxb. ms.; 

 Am. I. c. 84 (in note). C. oryzeticola, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 37. C. race- 

 mosus, Seyne, ms.; Boeck. in Flora, Ixii. 555 (not Boeck. in Linncsa, 

 xxxvi. 310). 0. parviflorus, Heyne, ms.. Wall. Gat. n. 3343, B. (of. Knnth 

 Enum. ii. 115, not of Nees). Papyrus venustus, Schrader in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. (part i.) 59 in note. 0. maximus, elatus, parviflorus, extensus, 

 spic,a.tyjis. Herb. Seyne; Wall. Oat. 3343. C. verticillatus. Herb. Wight & 

 Herb. Ham:; Wall. Gat. 3343, H, I.— Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3327, 3328. 



Prom the Punjab to Assam and Ceylon ; common. — Distexb. Trop. and 

 subtrop. regions. 



Stem 3-6 ft. — Hardly to be distinguished from large forms of C radiaius, but by 

 the less dense spikes. Spikelets often brightly coloured. 



Var. /3 dives, C. B. Clarke !. u. 187 ; umbel divaricate rigid, ripe spikelets rigid 

 hard spreading at right angles somewhat turgid, style 3-fid. C. dives, Delile Ft. 

 Egypt, 5, t.4, fig. 3 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 71 ; C. S. Clarke I. v. 293. C. alopecuroides, 

 Boeck. in Linneea, xxxvi. 322. — N. India ; from Sind, Pimwill to Chittagong, /. J). 

 SooTcer. — Africa. 



